going into the mid terms is whether or not that coalition of voters who supported president trump will show up for republican candidates up and down the ballot when he is not there and for better or worse this issue will unite the right. that s the wrong term but get them fired up. dana: you have to fire up your base. i was listen to josh s podcast against the grain. alyssa was in there a you republican member of congress told her sometimes you have to scare your base into wanting to vote. especially when their guy, donald trump isn t on the ballot. dana: let me ask you this because we have one minute left, shelby, the manafort trial, the closing arguments are today. how long do you think the jury deliberations will take and what else could happen in terms of evidence at the end of this trial. it does seem like the jury will not return a verdict today. they have to listen to the judge go through instructions. so probably tomorrow or friday. it s unclear how quickly they will mo
families, we have nobody. this is a demagoguery this country has never witnessed in its history. you have this person in congress now who attacked a member of the press and paul ryan and nobody else said anything about it. they could have kept him from being seated. body slammed him the day before the election and he won. i got to thank my producer dave murphy. he is the one who helped us lay out exactly what s at stake. up next, the manafort trial enters week number two. his former right-hand man rick gates could take the stand as early as today. why he could make or break the case against trump s former campaign manager. (vo) why do subaru forester owners always seem so happy? because they ve chosen the industry leader. subaru forester holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class according to alg. better than cr-v. better than rav4. better than rogue. an adventure that starts with a subaru forester will always leave you smiling.
part of russia s strategy in trying to elect trump. now we will see laid out the relationship between bernie sanders s senior strategist and donald trump s indicted campaign chairman. we will see whatever it is that tad devine is offering prosecutors about his work alongside paul manafort in the former soviet union which, of course led to this litany of felony charges against manafort, the manafort trial is due to start early next week. so wow. right? that just happened tonight. and that news came on top of this bombshell report the wall street journal this afternoon that a man named allen weisselberg has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in the southern district of new york. the federal grand jury considering the criminal investigation into the president s long-time personal attorney michael cohen. now, the michael cohen case big picture, it s still beak one big open question. in terms of what kind of legal trouble might lie ahead for the
we re going to get to see the strengths of the evidence. laura: not going to play out in the u.s. courts regarding the president. that s not how it works. it s not going to play out in the u.s. courts. i m talking about players. laura: the manafort stuff, i don t see how that has any relevance. kim, the manafort trial that will come up with this year perhaps, i m not seeing any evidence so far that that is connected to anything really close to the president at all. no. i mean, this is part of the dissolutionment, i think, with the mueller probe. people were hoping he was going to come in and we would get the story of what happened in 2016. peepeople are now reminded that s never what happens whether you have a special prosecutor. we have lower level crimes. they somehow cast suspicion on the trump team, but they don t tell us anything because they are not crimes that are in any way related to what the original charges were obstruction, collusion, et cetera. i would have been mu
courts, we re going to get to see what the evidence is we re going to get to see the strengths of the evidence. laura: not going to play out in the u.s. courts regarding the president. that s not how it works. it s not going to play out in the u.s. courts. i m talking about players. laura: the manafort stuff, i don t see how that has any relevance. kim, the manafort trial that will come up with this year perhaps, i m not seeing any evidence so far that that is connected to anything really close to the president at all. no. i mean, this is part of the dissolutionment, i think, with the mueller probe. people were hoping he was going to come in and we would get the story of what happened in 2016. peepeople are now reminded that s never what happens whether you have a special prosecutor. we have lower level crimes. they somehow cast suspicion on the trump team, but they don t tell us anything because they are not crimes that are in any way related to what the original charges were